May 2016

Micah Jones, a joint African American Studies and History major, has won the 2016 Wrexham Prize in the Humanities.

Micah Jones, a joint African American Studies and History major, has won the 2016 Wrexham Prize in the Humanities.  The Department of African American Studies nominated Jones for the prize, based on her combined essay in both of her majors.  The essay, “To Live for the Revolution:  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Birth of Black Power Feminism,” probes the role of black and white women in SNCC, the activities and strategies that led them to articulate feminisms, and the effect of civil rights activism and Black Power on the women’s movement of the 1970s.

Student-curated exhibit at Sterling Library explores the 1950s comic book scare

During a televised hearing on April 21, 1955, U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver held up a comic book to the cameras. Its cover depicted an ax-wielding man holding a woman’s severed head.

Kefauver, who was chairing hearings on whether crime and horror comics contributed to juvenile delinquency, asked Bill Gaines, editor of EC Comics and publisher of the comic at issue, whether he thought the cover was in good taste.

“Yes, sir, I do — for the cover of a horror comic,” Gaines said.